An outstanding documentary photographer who's work I happened to get a chance to look at in an exibition at the Nottingham Contemporary. Her work is at a first glance absolutely hilarious but has an underlying seriousness to it. She looks at American culture both urban and suburban. She photographs the weird and wonderful such as drag queens and dwarfs. Her work is a good way to educate people of the large diversity of people in America and raise awareness for them to stop discrimination. That's only for some images though not all, like the one above which is one of my favourites more down to a comical factor. The facial expressions on the senior citizens faces are hilariously glum despite the fact they have just won king and queen of the ball. It relates back to prom and the fact that to be prom king and queen to most teenagers in America is one of the most important things in their lives, where as to an OAP its extremely trivial how ironic.
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